Why this word is great
BOOKLORE — [Noun] Practical and historical knowledge concerning books, encompassing details of authorship, printing, editions, and provenance, or more broadly, wisdom itself gleaned from textual sources. From Middle English boclore, from Old English bōclār, a compound of bōc ("book") and lār ("learning, lore"). Unlike "bibliography," which denotes a systematic catalog, or "erudition," which suggests grand, diffuse scholarship, booklore is the intimate, tactile familiarity with the book as a crafted artifact and vessel. It is the scent of iron gall ink on rag paper, the bibliographic ghost of a suppressed dedication page, and the quiet satisfaction of tracing marginalia to a forgotten reader in 1823—the intimate history of thought preserved in paper and ink, a testament that the container, too, holds its own particular truth.